Multi-Factor Authentication and Information Security of Telecommunication Firms in South-South Nigeria

Author(s): BROWN Miller Ibiso

Abstract:
Multi-factor authentication is an electronic authentication method in which a user is granted access to a website or application only after successfully presenting two or more pieces of factors (evidence) to an authentication mechanism. The adoption of multi-factor authentication is shaping the lives of individuals and organizations to have a secure data environment, due to the prevalent nature of cyber attacks as well as unauthorized access to information. With cyber crimes on the rise, organizations are encouraged to be proactive by stepping-up their information security with the adoption of multi-factor authentication as a more secure means of information security. Organizations are being urged to adopt multi-factor authentication due to its unique way of safeguarding unauthorized access to information. Bearing in mind that in today’s turbulent business world organizations are choosing multi-factor authentication more often, the purpose of this paper was to analyse the very process of multi-factor authentication. The deployment of MFA provides the establishment of unique information security policy for managing a company. Based on the analysis of literature, the author stresses that Multi-factor authentication cannot be ignored if Telecommunication firms in Nigeria wishes to achieve higher optimization and overall efficiency.

Keywords: Multifactor Authentication, Information Security and Telecommunication

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